7. September 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Ocean Energy Institute Seeks Direction

Still reeling from the death of founder and leader Matthew Simmons, staff and board members at the Ocean Energy Institute are debating the organization’s mission and path forward, the Portland Press Herald reported Sunday.
The Maine-based Institute could continue as a non profit research group, join with another organization or pursue a private, for-profit [...]

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3. September 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Wind Measurement Company Expands Manufacturing

Massachusetts-based Second Wind Inc. is growing its manufacturing operations for wind measuring equipment, Mass High Tech reported yesterday.
The company is making a strong push in sodar technology systems and CEO Larry Letteney told Mass High Tech that Second Wind now has 65 percent of the market for remote sensing technology for wind.  Last month, [...]

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2. September 2010

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Maine Releases RFP for Offshore Wind and Tidal Energy

By Peter Brennan
The Maine Public Utilities Commission issued a request for proposals Wednesday for a deepwater offshore wind pilot project and tidal renewable energy demonstration project. The RFP is the result of a law passed by the state legislature in April that implemented the recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task force.
According to the RFP, [...]

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1. September 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Massachusetts Court Allows Cape Wind “Super Permit”

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday the state was allowed to overrule community opposition when it granted a “super permit” to the Cape Wind offshore wind project in 2009, the Boston Globe reported.
According to the Globe, if the court decision had gone the other way “the project would probably have been delayed [...]

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31. August 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Three Developers Reply To Evanston Offshore Wind RFI

Three offshore wind developers responded this summer to a request for information from the city of Evanston, Illinois, according to Medill Reports, a Northwestern University-based Web site.
The article did not identify the companies that submitted responses.
City officials issued the RFI to gain more insight into a plan for 40 offshore wind turbines in Lake Michigan.  [...]

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30. August 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: RI Offshore Wind Planning Excludes Federal Waters

Rhode Island’s much-heralded offshore wind mapping project does not include any recommendations for federal waters, the Providence Journal reported on Saturday.
The Ocean Special Area Management Plan (SAMP) — which has taken two years and cost more than $8 million — conducted research beyond the three-mile state boundary but is not allowed to [...]

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26. August 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: NJ Offshore Push Focused on Former BP Facility

Offshore wind legislation signed recently by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is focused on redeveloping a former BP oil facility in South Jersey, the Times of Trenton reported today.
“The Paulsboro Marine Terminal, a port on the Delaware River the state has struggled to revitalize, is considered an ideal site for manufacturing wind turbines,” the paper [...]

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25. August 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Daewoo Considering North American Wind Farm

Daewoo Shipbuilding — the giant South Korean corporation that is currently developing its own offshore wind turbine — is considering developing a wind farm in North America, Bloomberg reported yesterday.
The company aims to generate 30 percent of its sales from wind power by 2020, according to the report.
“It’s a very ambitious target and it won’t [...]

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24. August 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Appeals Filed Over RI Power Deal

The Rhode Island attorney general, an environmental nonprofit and an industry partnership appealed the recent approval of a power purchase agreement for the Deepwater Wind project near Block Island, the Providence Journal reported Tuesday.
Attorney General Patrick Lynch and the Conservation Law Foundation appealed the decision by the Public Utilities Commission to the Supreme Court, [...]

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23. August 2010

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MORNING ROUNDUP: Cape Wind Will Cost More Than $2.5 Billion

The Cape Wind offshore wind project will cost more than $2.5 billion to build, not including the cost of financing, the Boston Globe reported over the weekend.

The Globe reported on an analysis of the Cape Wind power purchase agreement.  That analysis, by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, was submitted to state regulators who [...]

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